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Spagetti alla carbonara

Spaghetti from the coalface is best for two

by jill dupleix

December 16 2003, 12:00am, The Times

NO?L COWARD, born on this day just in time for Christmas (hence the name No?l) in 1899, was a blithe spirit with a sharp pen, always ready to prick the inflated balloons of snobbery and pretension. Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun because, as he tells us: “Englishmen detest-a siesta.”

In 1967 he wrote a little ditty about pork that bears repeating in part.